Despite his success, the dual Thai and British national, is already focusing on improving further ahead of looking forward to the next race on the calendar, the Italian Grand Prix this weekend.

“There are definitely some areas I need to improve on and over the next few days I’ll get my head down, do some homework and address them for Monza.

“I’ll sit down with the team and understand why I struggled at the start.”

Team principal Christian Horner was also impressed with Albon’s Red Bull debut, praising his recovery after his disappointment in qualifying.

“I’ve been impressed with Alex’s performance all weekend and he put in a great recovery drive from 17th on the grid to finish fifth in his first race with us.

“Things started to come alive for him on the softer compound tyre and he put in some great overtakes.”

Albon was beaten only by Lewis Hamilton, Valterri Bottas, Sebastien Vettel and Charles LeClerc, while his Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen failed to make it past turn three after colliding with Kimi Raikkonen.